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Man accused of offering adopted black son for sex
11:47 AM on 07/01/2009
An official at Duke University in North Carolina has been arrested and charged with offering a five-year-old boy for sex. The FBI's Washington field office and police in the nation's capital say Lombard was arrested after an Internet sting.
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Mississippi still the fattest state
8:09 AM on 07/01/2009
LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. It's time for the nation's annual obesity rankings and, outside of...
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Apollo celebrates the King of Pop
6:08 PM on 06/30/2009
Thousands of Michael Jackson fans converged on Harlem's famed Apollo Theater Tuesday for a public tribute to the performer, clutching photographs, cheering and dancing to his music at the legendary venue that launched the one-time child star's career. A black fedora with a white glove draped across its brim sat on a lone...
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Cynthia McKinney on ship seized by Israel
2:28 PM on 06/30/2009
The Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying foreign peace activists trying to break a blockade of Gaza on Tuesday and forced it to sail to an Israeli port, the military said. A statement said the Greek-registered freighter Arion ignored a radio message from the Israeli military saying it would not be allowed to enter Gaza waters and ordering it to turn back.
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White firefighters win Supreme Court discrimination case
1:58 PM on 06/29/2009
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.
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